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[News] GNU/Linux as a Powerful Privacy Tool

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GNU/Linux free software tools to preserve your online privacy, anonymity and
security

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| The second piece of shocking information was a report in the New York Times 
| of a leaked document that the USA and the the European Union were proposing 
| to exchange information with each other on their citizens. Allowing this to 
| happen would be like putting Count Dracula in charge of a blood bank. They 
| will of course plead effusively (a) good intentions and (b) make extravagant 
| claims for built-in safeguards. Well, the latter is about as useful as a 
| chocolate teapot. Heard it all before—along with fairy tales from my mother 
| and father about the tooth fairy and Santa. Inevitably, they also plead cruel 
| necessity but those words have been on the lips of all tyrants since time 
| immemorial. When they start forming on the lips of “democratic” governments 
| and politicians then it really is time to consider what must be done.          
| 
| As the average politician’s knowledge of science and information technology 
| is smaller than Planck’s Constant we should not be surprised at such poor 
| understanding and lax control.  
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/gnu_linux_free_software_tools_preserve_your_online_privacy_anonymity_and_security
http://tinyurl.com/5ouz3z


Recent:

Mozilla considers tracking Firefox browsing habits

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| The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the Firefox web browser, is
| considering tracking its users’ browsing habits on a voluntary basis.
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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/20/mozilla-considers-tracking-firefox-browsing-habits/1


5 Ways Your Gadgets Will Betray Your Privacy

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| I’ve spent a considerable amount of my personal and professional time mocking
| conspiracy theorists, but it is true that as we open our homes and our
| wallets to electronic devices, we are also opening up our lives to
| surveillance. So if you plan on doing something risky, read the list below.
| Then then check out your ISP’s terms of service, wrap your phone in tinfoil,
| and call a cab (leave your wallet at home).
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http://gigaom.com/2008/05/19/5-ways-your-gadgets-will-betray-you/


UK gov't plans huge database of e-mails and phone calls

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| The UK government could track all emails and phone calls made in the UK, if
| its plans for a vast centralized database go ahead.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1523259541&rid=-50


British Balk at Government Getting a Discussion Database

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| The UK is up in arms this week — complete with torches and pitchforks — over
| the latest plan by the increasingly unpopular government's plan to build a
| database to hold copies of every email sent in the UK along with recordings
| of every phone call in the country.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/british-balk-government-getting-discussion-database


The Open Source Lifestyle -- Privacy versus Respect

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| And the flip side is that as people, as parents, as mentors, and as leaders, 
| we need to teach about respect on the Internet. Privacy based on respect is 
| much more likely to be truly private.  
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-lifestyle-privacy-versus-respect


Related:

Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems

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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to 
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files, 
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status 
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could 
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status 
| messages?     
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml


Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?

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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent 
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted 
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'   
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200


FBI ducks questions about its remotely installed spyware

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| There are plenty of unanswered questions about the FBI spyware that, as we 
| reported earlier this week, can be delivered over the Internet and implanted  
| in a suspect's computer remotely. 
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747666-7.html


Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government

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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government 
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of 
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an 
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.   
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/


Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior

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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal 
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make 
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.  
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823


New software can identify you from your online habits

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| That is the spectre raised by new research conducted by Microsoft.
| The computing giant is developing software that could accurately
| guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location,
| by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history. But
| experts say the idea is a clear threat to privacy - and may be
| illegal in some places.
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http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426046.400&feedId=being-human_rss20
http://tinyurl.com/2lrazk


Microsoft ponders offline profiling of Web users

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| Microsoft Corp. is developing a method of using personal data such as 
| credit-card information to target Internet users with advertising once they 
| connect to the Web, according to a patent application filed by the company.  
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| In an application disclosed earlier this month, a Microsoft team including 
| Chairman Bill Gates presents a method of collecting information about 
| users' "cell phones, geolocation systems, credit-card information" and other 
| data sources to select and display "targeted advertising."    
| 
| [...]
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| Gates is listed as an inventor on the patent application, alongside members 
| of various Microsoft research units. 
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-ponders-offline-profiling-web/story.aspx?guid=%7BF0D7FACF%2D0072%2D43C6%2DB341%2DB934D7E84635%7D&siteid=yhoof
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